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Serra, an EandM Company - San Francisco, CA and Healdsburg, CA - full-time, Automation PLC / HMI Engineers

Little different than the rest of the stuff here, but it's worth a shot:

Serra is looking for Industrial Automation Engineers to work in our busy San Francisco and North Bay engineering offices, serving clients in Northern California.

We know it's not the sexist programming technology, but if you want the opportunity to make physical systems move around and do cool stuff, this is the place for you.

Serra team members create and implement industrial automation systems. In addition to working as part of a team, you will be given the responsibility to complete many tasks independently. A thorough understanding of automation systems, computer systems, and software is required, along with a eagerness to learn and to implement solutions. The ability to complete projects on time and on budget are critical to achieving success at Serra.

The ideal candidate will meet one of the following two qualifications:
1. A Bachelor's degree in electrical or mechanical engineering
2. Or, 5-10 years of practical experience in a related field, including some or all of the following:
• PLC Programming: Siemens, Allen-Bradley, etc. . .
• Industrial HMI development and maintenance: Wonderware, WinCC, iFix, etc. . .
• Database development and maintenance (SQL)
• Industrial communication network architecture and maintenance, TCP/IP, Modbus (and variants), ControlNet, DeviceNet, PROFIBUS, PROFINET, RS-232, RS-485

In addition, the qualified candidate must have:
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A fundamental understanding of computer hardware and system architecture
• A fundamental understanding of computer communications and network implementation
• Solid programming skills in a variety of languages and environments

What Can You Expect at Serra?

Serra serves clients in a wide range of industries; our clients include wineries, semiconductor manufacturers, and everything in between. Serra Engineers spend their time working on project assignments, service calls, project reviews, and post-implementation support.

Assignments are diverse and include many aspects of industrial automation, including manufacturing and distribution systems (with an emphasis on discrete control and process control) and real-time data transactions.

If you're interested, shoot us a line at jobs@eandm.com with your resume and cover letter!
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That's true; I don't purchase many AAA games so I don't experience that much. It is pretty annoying having GFWL on top of Steam.

As an indie developer on Steam, I can't see any non-AAA games ever using additional DRM. We're just in it for the convenience of distribution.
Facebook reported in their SEC filing that they had 170M active US accounts, about 55 accounts for every 100 Americans. Interesting gap, especially because this survey only looks at US internet users and doesn't ask about active.

I wonder if this is due to multiple accounts per person, bad facebook reporting, or bad survey results.
It probably has a proximity timeout -- if you're out of range for more than x number of minutes, it will consider you 'gone'. It may not be passive, and may send you a request via Bluetooth for unlock. I imagine they have this worked out well enough to advertise it :)
A non-Kickstarter Kickstarter?
The Federal Arbitration Act of 1925 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Arbitration_Act

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mobility_v._Concepcion
You'd be surprised at the market for dog poop. It can be used as organic fertilizer, as a weapon, as a training aid (for training puppies). Seriously, I've purchased a bottle of dog pee on amazon for $7.99 with free shipping via prime. I know this sounds crazy, but I'm dead serious. I used the dog pee to teach my dog where he should go. But I wouldn't have known that was even possible without marketing.

Almost anything that you think is useless has a way that it can be used that justifies someone paying for it.
I'm working on a platform that can make things like this easier to deal with. Docverter[1] is an online document conversion system, and one of the things that I plan on offering is sending a converted document to an email address, which very well could be a kindle address. It's in active beta right now, if you'd like an invite send me an email (in my profile).

[1]: http://www.docverter.com
I'd be interested in how the devices talk to their servers, and if they have control to unlock the devices. It would be smart to have public / private keypairs for each device capable of unlocking, so that even they could potentially not be allowed to unlock it. I want to see if this service gets hacked and someone issues a mass-unlock signal.
Rumor: Microsoft In Acquisition Talks With Rdio
Gabe Newell, Peter Jackson, Jack Black, Opera, Steve Ballmer, et al
Best Buy - Minneapolis / CA - full-time / contract

Passionate about HCI? Interested in solving retail / e-commerce problems with sensor arrays? We're looking for someone to work on rapid prototypes, lead teach outs and get their hands dirty. This role will allow you to pick your own stack, play with cool toys and present your product, as it develops, to your peers and leadership.

Please reach out to matthew.hurewitz@bestbuy.com
What does it matter? If the answer is "yes" what would you do differently? Why not do those things anyways?
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Then (as is the answer to many of the security concerns people have with Lockitron) just don't enable that feature.

Also, anyone that's seriously worried about the security of this device should be mostly concerned that the standard keyhole still exists on the other side of the door because they're trivial to bump or pick.
Most people I know have a FB account for their dog. Is it just me?
Thanks for clarifying. At time of writing the only two data types that are routinely and consistently cast as objects in Drupal's codebase are users and nodes. The comical thing is neither have methods assigned and can just as easily be cast as associative arrays (like everything else).

Outside of core, contrib has gotten quite object oriented over the last few years as Views, Panels, Simpletest, Ctools (etc) are all heavily object-oriented and the popularity of these modules has driven a lot of other contrib module development that in turn is required to take an object-oriented approach to interact smoothly with these modules.

Still, attempting to claim Drupal is in any way object oriented is like hot gluing a handful of feathers to a basketball and calling it a chicken.
I believe this common perception rests upon a conflation of wealth, asset, and income.

Middle class America received high incomes for a period of time, and converted a chunk of it into an asset in the form of residential housing, then thought it had substantial wealth embedded in that asset. Not so.

Residential housing can be somewhat modeled by the purchasers/debtors as a put option that the debtor's income will not fall below a certain floor (sufficient to service the note), with a 7 to 10-year expiration date (the average age of a mortgage in the US before it is extinguished). If the residential housing is purchased outright, then it is a put option on the area's prevailing wages, which in turn supports the valuation.

The housing structure and property itself is much more wage-linked asset than wealth that intrinsically generates income. It is wealth only in a derivative sense, as a high-latency indicator of prevailing wages in the area when it changes ownership.

To cheerlead for housing prices to go up as an unalloyed good is to misplace the context of why it goes up in the first place. For a certain phase of economic development, it can be good because of the cascading economic benefits that arise from the growth such pricing deltas signal. For America, at its current stage of economic, technological and demographic development, in its place in the world economy, it is at least highly debatable whether housing prices going up actually leads to much positive externality economic benefits as before.
I hate Honeydew or: Why you should always ask "Why?"
@its_so_on:

>"I really hope we don't find that it shares a common ancestor with life on Earth". Could you give a definition here, please?

I cannot respond to you directly, but sure. When I say I hope there is not a "common ancestor" I mean that I hope life on Earth and life anywhere else we may discover it do not have "common descent" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_descent). That is strongly believed to be the case with all life we have encountered so far. This is also a pretty good wikipedia page about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_ancestor
It's awesome. Really, I love it.

The core of it: dealing with the DOM kind of sucks, and as much as keeping 3 main file types around (.html, .css, .js) for web development isn't too much of a pain, the fact that HTML sits between everything muddies the water quite a bit.

Sure, $$ needs some more love and a community to pick it up and run, but kudos to you for getting it out there and having a solid philosophy (tiny robust kernel, super extensible, consistent docs). And yes, I'd write the code more compactly (the de facto js notation mentioned in another comment), but whatever, that's easy to translate.

I say all this because our team is working on an app ( http://luunr.com ) and toggling back and forth between HTML and JS is borderline silly (we looked at things like Angular and couldn't get behind them, feels to rigid and baked in my book). Would have loved to experiment with this a few weeks ago when we started.

Keep up the good fight and continue developing $$!
This is actually a highly valid point.

If the answer is "yes" so what? If overweight individuals could be less overweight then don't you think they would be already?

Kind of like asking a heroin addict "will using heroin hurt your career?" Yes? Oh well let me quit right this second then...

Ditto smokers, alcoholics, other eating disorders, depression, mental illness, drug users, sex-addicts, internet-addicts, et al.

I'm no expert on curing this stuff but I do know that shaming them or putting tons of pressure on them (quit or X Y Z will happen) is the opposite of progress.
We're experimenting with this feature and really want it to work. We will keep refining it going forward. One really needs two radios or some very clever math to determine which side of the door one is on.

What we have done for our development version is set it up so it can be in one of three modes. Always on (for passageways) so it consistently locks as you walk up and unlocks as you walk away. Always off (always disabled). Or Manual override.

With the Manual override it still unlocks as you approach and locks again as you depart, but it also allows you to lock the door by hand after you come in and will stay locked until you manually unlock it by hand again or send it a direct command from your phone. This way it doesn't unlock randomly while you're walking up to the door to answer it.

It's our first pass at making this particular feature happen.
Courts have avoided Concepcion with surprising frequency by holding that it did not preempt ordinary unconscionability rules.

There's a pretty good round up of illustrative opinions here: http://www.uclpractitioner.com/2012/03/new-opinions-interpre...
When I see a headline like this one I immediately think of this cartoon : http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/...

I chuckle a bit and then move onto the headline "America to immigrants: ‘Give me your tired, your poor’ but keep your entrepreneurs" Written by Vivek Wadhwa and chuckle some more.

I then having got past the title got to read a rather insightful article about how it is easy to come and work in America and visa's for that exist. But if you which to start a company and as such have a situation were you have to apply for citizenship, then you could have a top 25 existing company in-play already employing American's and pay lots of TAX then you can still be told sorry no. That said there was mention of a % drop in immigrant started companies and this still points to them happening.
I suspect the tighter limits has meant raising the bar beyond what it needs to be for many and with that perhaps a new type of VISA needs to be made. I don't know the whole American VISA system that well, but certainly some middle ground from worker VISA to citizen VISA to cater for those employing American's can be met. Maybe if they employ so many then they qualify. So for example if you can form a company and employ say 5 people full time then you are granted say a 5 year business VISA which is reviewed every 5 years to see that you meet checks and after say 3 period gain a full citizenship. Something like that, though a lot more detailed against loopholes I suspect.

But still, very nice read and very good article, despite the interesting choice of title, albeit once you have read the article you will see why it is just on so many levels sadly.
What conclusion were you looking for exactly? It was an empirical recounting of events, peppered with an analysis of why the events are so frustrating for the author. Did you expect The Essay That Ends Racism?
The difference in the signal in one channel will make the encoder throw away different parts of the audio compared to the other channel. This produces data loss in both the 'mono' portion of the signal and the 'stereo' part of the signal. So the 'mono' part of the signal (the vocal) ends up being different between the tracks since data loss is applied across the whole frequency range (or large chunks). Note that Joint Stereo has the same problem because the 'joint stereo-ness' only applies to the top part of the frequency spectrum.
> I have the impression that for new users it's mostly s feed reader with ads and Foursquare checkins

There's another way to use it? Seriously, I don't get how to use Twitter. If I follow someone, how do I comment on what they said? Does everyone see that? What exactly is Twitter trying to do? I have never 'got' it.

It's looks to me like an IM service crossed with RSS, except I can't figure out how to do any messaging.

(Not that this is really a problem, I have nothing to say and am not social, but it's irritating not understanding something.)
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It seemed to me like this is what the jury foreman did - he applied the law rather literally. When he said the fact that the Apple methods couldn't be invalidated by prior art because the old methods were incompatible with newer processors, as ludicrous as that sounds as an argument, it seemed to be a faithful interpretation of what they were told about the relevant laws.
Why knowledge workers should work less than 40 hours/week?
The Natural 4000 is a bit hit or miss. I've had 3; two were excellent, but one is merely acceptable. The action of the keys isn't as smooth, and the space bar initially required a slightly firmer press. The space bar seems to have loosened up over time, though, and I got used to the key feel quicker than I was expecting - but typos ARE much more frequent on that keyboard.

The inconsistency is a shame, because as a keyboard I really rate it. Good shape, comfy palm rests, standard layout, unintrusive media keys, and the stupid (but seemingly inevitable) F-Lock feature starts out disabled.

The action is not quite as nice as the previous Natural Pro model, but it's a lot quieter...
We don't take the money up front. We're authorizing cards as a minimal low pass filter. Primarily we need to know how many to make (or if anyone wanted one at all!)
I think why this happens is this: if you're on a trading desk of 10 people that makes $10m, it's easy to quantify your contribution and use that as leverage to get a big bonus. If you're on one of 10 product teams that each have 10 people and in total generate $100m in revenue, it's hard to quantify your specific contribution and use it to negotiate a large bonus, even though you're bringing in the same revenue on an averaged basis.

I've always wondered why compensation in software engineering is lower compared to revenues than similar professions. A lot of the things that are either facially true or commonly held beliefs: software has low capital costs, good programmers are much more productive than bad ones, a lot of revenue can be brought in with a relatively small team, are the things that make banking, law, consulting, and even accounting more relatively lucrative for workers as opposed to shareholders. But I think there is this holdover perception of treating software engineers like other engineers, even though the dynamics of those fields is very different (massive teams coordinating to build pyramids with huge capital costs).
So you're saying it is a Chow Chow looking down on us.
Very cool, but their website is down (HN'd?) and their lack of any real "call to action" (which gets me off their tumblr and to their ACTUAL website) will leave many a mouse-wielding monkey stupefied.
I would argue that being "evil" is less important than being completely single-minded.

Why, for example, does Google track its customers? To show them more relevant search results and ads.

From Google's perspective why is that a "good" thing? Because more relevant content means the customer is more engaged.

Why is engagement important? An engaged customer is going to spend longer on your site/services than an unengaged one.

So what can we take away from this? Google is completely single-minded about keeping customers using its products and customer engagement is a cornerstone in that strategy which in turn leads to things which one might consider "evil."

Good and evil are all a matter of perspective. The problem with morals is that they get in the way of being single-minded. If you WANT your business to succeed but are too moral to fire that under-performing employee then you might at best set your business back or at worst fail entirely.
While I like the idea, I think it's overly ambitious, a bit misleading, and I don't think these are the people to pull this off. If you read their bios, it's clear that they have no history of repeated success, or the appropriate backgrounds to really execute on a project like this. I would not entrust them with $1.5M.
Depends where in New York City. Manhattan, no way. 1.5m would cover just the buying price of a single apartment in any new building. Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, SI– "maybe". As in, if they're both brilliant and well disciplined planners and happen to be lucky...
> 1) It helps you keep your place -- you can bookmark one of the 15 pages to continue reading from later on, or forward to your friend ("check out the third paragraph" instead of "84th paragraph"). Obviously, you'd never show a 100,000-word article on one page (except for printing). At some point, pagination is necessary. Where to draw the line is obviously depends on a multitude of factors.

Put permalinks next to sections headings and/or change the fragment in the url bar with javascript as the user scrolls. Links work, and no need for pagination

>2) Feeling like you're "in" the site, not in no-man's land. From a web design perspective, you always want people to be able to navigate easily to other parts of the site -- you want stuff in the sidebar, never be too far away from header/footer, etc. You don't want people to be in a narrow column of text, with total white on both sides and nothing else. (Obviously users might often prefer this, like I do, hence Instapaper etc., but other users also like to be able to skip around to the rest of the site easily once they decide this particular article isn't for them, etc.) Of course, "floating" sidebars, headers, etc. can help alleviate this, but this requires the sidebars to be very small, which is not always possible.

Use position: fixed (as you mention).Having submenus that expand on click alleviates the space constraints. You can also swap out content in your header or sidebar as the user scrolls (but please use tranitions, or you'll give everyone eyestrain).

> 3) "Chunking" large pieces of content is just a good thing. A huge wall of text is just no good from a usability or legibility standpoint. This, of course, is why articles are broken down into sentences, paragraphs, sections, parts, etc., so people "know where they are". Now I'll be the first to admit that paging is a particularly inelegant sledgehammer way of chunking, but when you're dealing with lots of articles of different lengths, formats, etc., it's a kind of lowest-common-denominator that is seen as better than nothing

What's wrong with section headings?
I like the $$ syntax, but DoubleDollarJS is not a great name, so I can see why you would think that.
d3.js tutorials have been sorely lacking. Glad to see you put this up, cheers.
I love my Kindle, but it drives me crazy
Huh? Even in the US, highly skilled workers are often able to find jobs without college degrees. It is harder, but possible. So why place that burden on foreigners?
We'll post an update with more technical details for developers as we approach launch. Sorry to tease!
Tapbots releases Netbot for App.net
We've had the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4261806

A cessna would need wings as large as a 747 and be traveling about mach 1 to take off, iirc.
>> you put a text file in Dropbox, and it showed up as a formatted page on the web

It's pretty easy to configure a generic Jinja2 HTML template, then run the markdown and Jinja2 python modules on any markdown file to turn it into a web page.

A framework is hardly needed, but these exist if you don't want to configure a solution:

Jekyll, Hyde: http://philipm.at/2011/0507/

Pelican: https://pelican.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
YouTube: Improved Content ID detection and appeals process for copyright claims
OT: I'm a big fan of Esoteric—interesting observation. He is a bit gimmicky at times (I trust you've seen his "Pterovision" videos on YouTube[1]—they're actually very funny).

[1] http://www.youtube.com/user/pterolab
Good catch! Thanks, and fixed!
College Knowledge Challenge -- Facebook app contest
Have you ever clicked a Wikipedia citation? Half they time they don't support, or even contradict, the article's claims. Groklaw isn't Wikipedia, but they idea that an article with citations is infallible is ludicrous. People misrepresent, either intentionally or accidentally, what they've read all the time.
Cool product. I'm glad it's being well received.

I really hope that this trend we are seeing is the beginning of an explosion in very high tech home automation and improved appliances in America. We're fantastically underserved, we're increasingly able to automate manufacturing of small systems like this, and there is a very popular revival of the small startup DIY culture going on.

Because you can imagine lots of otherwise unemployed people learning the basics of programming, microcontrollers, low-voltage digital electronics and servos, and making a ton of incredibly useful, modular stuff. It's not even that wild a dream.
Signed up for BerkeleyX: CS188.1x Artificial Intelligence
Facebook lets U.S. users pay to boost visibility of postings
> Are we content that millions of lives are disposable?

Red herring. Can't we be discontented with imperfection while still rejoicing in the progress of hundreds of millions of fewer people being killed by war?

> The growing middle class in Asia is due to the demand created by our outsourcing of manufacturing to there.

There are definitely connections, but if it was a zero-sum game with US and Europe, I would expect global oil demand (for instance) to stay the same and just shift, not greatly increase as it has. This suggests a real increase in wealth; capitalism is not zero-sum. However, I don't know what the future of robots means for it all...
Not HN'd. Problem with our host. We're working with them to resolve it ASAP.
Actually, b) is true: see [1]

[1] http://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/icoyote-europe/id367345773?mt...